Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
An immigrant artist's wanderlust propelled him to Britain, where his work was compared to Hogarth's, notes Emma Barker
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The Pick - Reconstructing lives
Reconstructing livesNational War Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 9 March-24 February 2013"We have now four miles of beds - and not eighteen inches apart," Florence Nightingale reported from the...
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Diary
BathThe Compassionate Eye: Birds and Beasts from the American Museum's Print CollectionAlthough he was a doctor, Dallas Pratt (1914-94) was deeply troubled by vivisection and committed to animal...
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That's all, folks!
Our Head of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Professor Gordon Lapping, has reacted angrily to insinuations that the BA course P3197 run by his department is a Mickey Mouse degree.Lapping...
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Leader: Exit the comfort zone
To truly satisfy students, the academy must push them to go for the burn intellectually, not mollycoddle them
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Research intelligence - Banking on intellectual futures
Paul Jump on the Birmingham Fellows programme drawing 50 rising stars into the university's orbit
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• Sally Hunt, the University and College Union's general secretary, has vowed to fight "fewer battles" while focusing on "members' priorities" after she was re-elected by a landslide. Ms Hunt...
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From where I sit - Stockholm syndrome
I am an immigrant, again, and this time I don't speak the language. I am a well-paid immigrant, with a very good job and helpful colleagues. And I am taking language lessons, for free, courtesy of...
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Odds and quads
John Gay's celebrated "ballad opera", The Beggar's Opera, was written in 1728. These striking wax figures - of Elsie French as Mrs Peachum and Violet Marquesita as Lucy Lockit - were created by...
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Appointments
University of OxfordGordon ClarkThe University of Oxford has appointed Gordon Clark, Halford Mackinder professor of geography, director of its Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment....
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Transatlantic traffic
When it comes to the academy, influence flows both ways, argues Alan Ryan
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Film review: Trishna
Had it really looked east and dared to dance, this film could have offered so much more, says Philip Dodd
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Satisfaction and its discontents
The National Student Survey puts pressure on lecturers to provide 'enhanced' experiences. But, argues Frank Furedi, the results do not measure educational quality and the process infantilises...
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Imperial echoes
'Internationalisation' is the trend du jour for universities, but they would do well to consider its earlier manifestation during the British Empire's long 19th century. As Tamson Pietsch explains,...